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Apple joins consortium to develop next-gen AI data center technology

Jan 14, 2025 | thestar.com.my | Wu Xiaoling

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- Apple has joined the Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium creating next-gen technology to link together chips in artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, the consortium announced on Tuesday. The consortium is developing a standard called UALink, which connects the AI accelerator chips found within a growing number of server farms. As of Tuesday, Apple is a member of the consortium's board, along with Alibaba and semiconductor company Synopsys.
Adebayo Ogunlesi joins OpenAI's Board of Directors

Jan 14, 2025 | thestar.com.my | Wu Xiaoling

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- OpenAI announced on Tuesday that Adebayo "Bayo" Ogunlesi has joined its Board of Directors. As Founding Partner, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), and a Senior Managing Director at BlackRock, "Ogunlesi brings deep leadership experience and expertise across corporate finance, infrastructure investment and global market strategy," the announcement said.
Meta plans to cut another 5 pct of lowest performers

Jan 14, 2025 | thestar.com.my | Wu Xiaoling

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Social media giant Meta is planning to cut about 5 percent of staff it considers to be its lowest performers, according to a Bloomberg report on Tuesday. An internal memo sent to staff by chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said he had "decided to raise the bar on performance management" in order to "move out low-performers faster," the report said.
OpenAI revises policy doc to remove reference to "politically unbiased" AI: report

Jan 14, 2025 | thestar.com.my | Wu Xiaoling

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- OpenAI has quietly removed language endorsing "politically unbiased" AI from one of its recently published policy documents, according to a report by TechCrunch on Tuesday. In the original draft of its "economic blueprint" for the AI industry in the United States, OpenAI said that AI models "should aim to be politically unbiased by default." A new draft, made available on Monday, deletes that phrasing.
Meta ends its DEI programs

Jan 10, 2025 | thestar.com.my | Wu Xiaoling

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- Meta on Friday announced the end of its DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) programs. Janelle Gale, Meta's vice president of people, made the announcement at the company's Workplace internal communications forum. "The legal and policy landscape surrounding diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in the United States is changing," Gale said, adding that given the shifting legal and policy landscape, the company is making the changes.
3.6-magnitude tremor hits same site as 1906 San Francisco quake

Jan 10, 2025 | thestar.com.my | Wu Xiaoling

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- U.S. San Francisco was jolted by a 3.6-magnitude earthquake Friday morning at the same location as the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The quake occurred at a depth of 7.9 kilometers. The epicenters of this earthquake and a 3.0-magnitude aftershock were detected offshore, about 5 kilometers northwest of the San Francisco Zoo, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Driver dies after being shot by police in U.S. Washington state

Jan 8, 2025 | thestar.com.my | Wu Xiaoling

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) -- A police officer shot a person Tuesday evening during a traffic stop and an altercation in which the suspect subsequently crashed the car into a Costco building in the city of Marysville, the U.S. state of Washington, according to the Multiple Agency Response Team of Snohomish County. The vehicle was engulfed in flames, and the suspect died. The team did not specify whether the suspect died from the shooting or the fire.
Crime drops to two-decade low in U.S. San Francisco in 2024

Jan 8, 2025 | thestar.com.my | Wu Xiaoling

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) -- Reported crime in U.S. San Francisco fell to a two-decade low in 2024, according to police data, dropping further than declines nationwide. Both reported violent crimes and property crimes in the city last year were at their lowest levels since 2001, according to a press release issued by Mayor London Breed's office and verified by a Chronicle analysis of data from the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) and the California Department of Justice.
Microsoft to invest 3 bln USD in AI, cloud services in India

Jan 7, 2025 | thestar.com.my | Wu Xiaoling

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- Microsoft announced on Tuesday its plan to invest 3 billion U.S. dollars to expand its artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud services in India. "The investments in infrastructure and skilling we are announcing today reaffirm our commitment to making India AI-first," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said.
Meta to phase back in political content on Facebook, Instagram, Threads

Jan 7, 2025 | thestar.com.my | Wu Xiaoling

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- As part of an overhaul of its content moderation policies announced on Tuesday, Meta said it would once again phase in political content into Facebook, Instagram and Threads to meet the demand for political content. Meta said Tuesday that it would take a "more personalized approach" going forward and recommend more political content to people based on personalized signals and would expand the options people have to control how much content they see.